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Dr. Michael Gomez leads a round table discussion featuring four young actors. Subdivided into five sections, Dr Gomez facilitates a dialogue on mental health issues that is then illustrated with scenes from...
From the depression of Hamlet to the guilt of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s work has many references to mental health. Academics and actors at Warwick Arts Centre explore issues such as depression,...
Fourth in the series of programmes on life in Elizabethan England. Doctors Phil Hammond and Tony Gardner discuss remedies in Elizabethan England including the use of leeches.
Radio programme. Body fat and the social and health issues it raises are currently fashionable issues, but they are not new concepts. Falstaff’s fatness is celebrated in Shakespeare’s plays and in...
Educational radio series in which husband and wife Greg James and Bella Mackie meet inspiring teachers. In this edition GCSE English teacher Mrs Steele gives them a lesson about just how gross life was in...
Five young scholars re-evaluate the playwrights work. The third programme is delivered by Joan Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Loughborough University. Fitzpatrick explains her new...
Les Blank’s documentary about the making of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO (1982). When FITZCARRALDO was first underway it starred Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo and Mick Jagger as his sidekick Wilbur....
John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...
Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 touring production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Neil Bartlett with David Dawson and Anneika Rose in the title roles.
Feature film. Fictionalised telling of the true story of the 1936 Orson Welles production of Macbeth in Harlem with an all-Black cast, the action relocated to the 19th century in a country reminiscent of...
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